UPC 9780870814983 The Invasion of Indian Country in the 20th Century: American Capitalism & Tribal Natural Resources

ISBN 9780870814983 - The Invasion of Indian Country in the 20th Century: American Capitalism & Tribal Natural Resources

ISBN 9780870814983 The Invasion of Indian Country in the 20th Century: American Capitalism & Tribal Natural Resources

Description 9780870814983

The struggle between Indians and whites for land did not end on the battlefields in the 1800s. When this hostile era closed with Native Americans forced onto reservations, no one expected that rich natural resources lay beneath these lands that white America would desperately desire. Yet oil, timber, fish, coal, water, and other resources were discovered to be in great demand in the mainstream market, and a new war began with Indian tribes and their leaders trying to protect their tribal natural resources throughout the twentieth century. In The Invasion of Indian Country in the 20th Century, Donald Fixico details the course of this struggle, providing a wealth of information on the resour 9780870814983